Thursday, March 19, 2009

A funny thing happened on the way to the grocery store


Actually it happened on the way back home, but this makes for a more clever headline.

Ahhh, the chore we all love so much-hunting and gathering at the local market. I have two hungry teenage boys so we were out of everything! I shopped, checked out (once again forgetting my cloth sacks, sigh) and loaded up my car with bags and bags of goods.

I was half way home when I heard a POW! What the? It scared the #@!* out of me so I looked behind me just in time to see two milk jugs go tumbling and BBQ potato chips go flying through the air like shrapnel. Yep, apparently I took a corner on 2 wheels, the milk shifted and landed on the hermetically sealed bag of chips, causing a Mythbuster-esque explosion (www.discoverychannel.com/mythbusters). Thankfully it was only the chip bag that broke and not the milk jugs-there's a never ending gift to the senses!

My first thought was the urban legend (http://www.snopes.com/) about the lady who got "shot in the head" with her own Pillsbury dough tube while driving home from the grocery store! I went from OMG to LOL and although the chips were reduced to crumbs, my hungry teenage boys ate them anyway.

2 comments:

  1. That is so funny...I am glad it wasn't the milk also...what a mess that would have made. Today I went to the grocery with my dog. I left him in the car with my soft drink which was in a styrofoam cup. I came out and both drink wells were full of coke...he had punctured the cup with his nail...fortunately it had not overflowed yet onto the seats.

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  2. oooh, I've had that happen too-what a mess!

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